2017 Stats

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i bawb!

That is, Happy New Year to everyone, if you don’t speak Welsh. (It’s okay. Neither do I.)

I’m not sure how many people will be interested in this, but I saw Chuckles’ pie charts and decided I rather liked the idea — if nothing else, for the sake of self-reflection! I’ve tried not to be too excessive, though. Below you’ll find a line graph showing how many books I read per month, and then for comparison, how many points I earned in Game of Books for each month. Below that there’s a pie chart showing what genres I’ve been reading, and another showing the sources of the books I read. You can click to embiggen. I used this site to make my graphs.

A note on how I calculated genres: on the rare occasions when a book was hard to pin down, I marked it in multiple genres, but for the most part I assigned each book a single genre.

Other stats:

Total read: 311
Number of rereads: 21
Total page count: 56,886
Most-read genre per month:

January: Fantasy

February: Science

March: Science

April: Fantasy

May: Science

June: Science

July: Fantasy

August: History

September: Fantasy

October: Science

November: Fantasy

December: History

Number of ratings:

Five stars: 16

Four stars: 155

Three stars: 105

Two stars: 29

One star: 6

I was a bit surprised by some of this — clearly my comics consumption has been hit hard by the fact that I was boycotting Marvel while Steve Rogers was a Nazi. My non-fiction consumption has gone sharply up, but given I’m in my third year of a science degree, I’m not terribly surprised by the amount of science I’m reading. SF was a sizeable genre throughout the year, but never beat out non-fiction or fantasy for being the most read in a single month.

Perhaps most surprising to me was the fact that I’ve actually read quite a bit of horror this year. It’s not really my kind of genre at all!

This is probably the least amount I’ve read in terms of total number of books in many years, but I have tackled my backlog somewhat and kept much more on top of reading the books I bought than usual. Game of Books worked out well, prompting me to read books that had been hanging around for longer, but I can always do better next year. (And yes, Game of Books is returning; I’ll make the spreadsheet later today, but probably won’t post about it until tomorrow. Let me know if you need a link sooner!)

It’s been a rough year in some ways, but we’ve survived it and here we are. Here’s to 2018 — may it bring us all joy (and many books).

I do like that month by month reading graph! My stats from last year would have nose dived at the end of the year! I found it hard to put all the books in a single genre at times-and I managed to miss out a book from the review of the year posts. I posted that I read one historical novel when I read two. Can’t believe I can miss THAT out when there were only two! Doh! I love doing this kind of thing as the stats can be surprising and I enjoy looking at others stats too!chucklesthescot recently posted…Top Ten Tuesday-New-to-Me

I know, I think I’ve missed a book here and there, but oh well — at least you can see the overall trends, right? I’ve got the graph-making site bookmarked for next year, too; thanks for linking to it when you did your graphs!